Planning in Emergencies REACH was piloted for the first time in Kyrgyzstan in order to support the humanitarian response by providing dedicated assessment, database and web mapping services to several country-level clusters: Shelter, Protection, WASH, and Food Security cluster.
REACH continues to work in Kyrgyzstan to contribute to the reconstruction, recovery and stabilization through socio-economic assessments and mapping exercises in the South of the country.
Integrated Environmental Planning Throughout REACH’s interventions in Kyrgyzstan, the community has been involved in different forms of mapping such as winter pasture, in order to delimitate peacefully new boundaries in the case of conflict issues over natural resources. Another key feature of the mapping tool developed by REACH is the creation of early warning systems using mobile phones technologies, with SMS-based surveys.

Тheme: Location of CBT (Community Based Tourism) groups and service providers in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Source of Data:CBT (Community Based Tourism) groups and service providers’ data was collected with the help of KCBTA (Kyrgyz Association of Community Based Tourism "Hospitality Kyrgyzstan") and TCBTA (Tajik Association of Community Based Tourism), in the framework of cross-border project "Uniting and Strengthening Community Based Tourism Associations in Central Asia."

Description: Data and photos of CBT groups (Community Based Tourism) and tourism service providers were provided by ACTED partners KCBTA and TCBTA. Information about 30 CBTs (15 in Kyrgyzstan, 15 in Tajikistan) is available in the form that was developed by ACTED. GIS team of ACTED has identified the locations of these tourism points and created a layer and published on REACH. Also, data were entered into Tourism MS Access database which is available online.

Date: August 2015

Community Hazard Vulnerability Assessment

Тheme: Hazard Vulnerability Assessment was done at the community (mahalla) level, with analysis of hazard vulnerability risk according to risk factors.

Source of Data: Hazard Vulnerability Assessments were conducted by ACTED, under the framework of the DIPECHO VIII project, in selected communities in
Tajikistan (20) and Kyrgyzstan (10).

Description: Information was collected through a Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) process at community level in association with key members of the community. Data was reviewed in the field by CoES representatives in Tajikistan and by the Head of MoES Batken Oblast. A DRR expert was also consulted to ensure that the data matched disaster conditions on the ground and accurately reflected the level of risk faced by target communities.

Date: September 2014

Peace building initiatives in the south of Kyrgyzstan

Тheme: Initiatives on peace building implemented in the south of Kyrgyzstan

Source of Data: ACTED

Description: A 3W (Who/What/Where) matrix created by the Protection Cluster in the south was used as an initial source of data. The matrix is regularly updated by cluster members comprising basic information on various organizations and their activities related to peacebuildingin the south. ACTED then visited each actor in peace building to collect first-hand information on their initiatives, which involved field visits to target areas in Osh, Jalal-Abad and Batken Oblasts. The data collected were entered into a separate profile for each organization, which were sent back to surveyed organizations to confirm the accuracy and content of data. Upon receipt of final confirmations, the profiles were consolidated into a report on peace building initiatives in the south.
The given research on peace building initiatives in the south was conducted within the framework of “Women Building Peace” project funded by the European Union. The objective of the assessment is to inform key stakeholders on initiatives implemented in the south to promote peace and interethnic tolerance. It also aimed to help actors to avoid potential duplications among them, to generate collaborative projects and to find synergies among the initiatives. To achieve this, a total of 46 organizations were surveyed leading to the production of a comprehensive report and online interactive map on peace building initiatives in the south of Kyrgyzstan. The findings for each organization were consolidated into separate profiles in the report.

The profile for each organization contains the following data:
• The basic information on PB initiative implementer (the name of organization, the name of initiative, whose funding, the period of implementation)
• The main objective of peace building and/or conflict resolution initiative
• Geographical coverage and beneficiaries in the frame of PB initiative
• What were the main problems before implementing initiative?
• What conflicts/issues were addressed during/after implementation of the PB project?
• What were the obstacles/challenges during implementing initiative?
• What should be undertaken in the future for enforcing/improving initiatives on peace building?
• What should be done for better collaboration of projects’ implementers for coordination of joint efforts in peace building?
• Contact information of the organization

As such, the findings of the assessment can be accessed in hard copies from ACTED Kyrgyzstan offices or by visiting REACH (www.reach-initiative.kg) where peace building initiatives are mapped/categorized at village, city and municipality levels. Also, this report with relevant maps is available in project’s web-site: www.wbp.kg

Date: August 2014 – March 2015

Women's Organisations

Theme: Women's Organisations

Source of Data: ACTED

Description: Data collection consisted of several stages. Initially, a database of NGOs listing 4600 NGOs was obtained from Department of Statistics of the Kyrgyz Republic and data on 150 NGOs from Civil Society Support Center Association. All this data was filtered to select only women organizations or organizations supporting women initiatives. This led to having 300 NGOs relevant for further assessment. Second filtering was done through calling each of the 300 NGOs identified to verify the data and determine if they are stilling existing and functional. 111 NGOs were found relevant and currently functional at this state. The project team then visited each of the 111 NGO to conduct focus group discussions with them. As a result and as a final stage of assessment, 68 NGOs were found currently functional from which the team collected quantitative and qualitative data described in detail in the directory.
Within the project “Women Building Peace”, funded by European Union was conducted data collection of women’s organizations to identify women organizations, actively functioning in the Kyrgyz Republic, in order to include them to national platform
(www.wbp.kg), to national directory of women’ organizations and to web-map and project’s web.

Date: Decembre 2014

WFP Price Monitoring

Socio-Economic Mapping

Description: Prices of basic commodities in Rural and Urban Markets. Retail prices of basic
commodities are monitored on a monthly basis in selected urban and rural markets in all
oblasts (provinces) in the country. The latest retail prices are compared against prices in
the previous month, three months ago, and one year ago. The data will be updated every
month according to WFP organization analyses.

Date: March 2013

WFP Food Security Assessment

Socio-Economic Mapping

Description: The statistically representative data at national, urban and rural levels, were
obtained by adopting a two-stage cluster sampling approach to select localities and
households. In each oblast and in Bishkek city 250 households were randomly selected. The
final sample comprised 2,000 households, including 652 in urban areas and 1,348 in rural
areas. The assessment collected the information needed to understand changes in
household food security and coping capacities. Data were collected on demographics,
livelihoods (income sources, food sources, and main expenditures), ownership of assets,
food consumption patterns, food stocks, coping strategies, access to assistance, and
priorities. The comparisons were made between 1) urban and rural areas, 2) oblasts, and 3)
household food security levels. The same analytical method was used to estimate the
degree of food insecurity at the household level (‘severely food insecure’, ‘moderately food
insecure’, and ‘food secure’). Food insecurity levels were determined by combining the WFP
standard Food Consumption Score (FCS) with the level of income as the food access
indicator. Food insecurity levels were determined by combining the FCS (frequency and
diversity of food intake based on seven-day recall) with the level of income as the economic
food access indicator. The sampling approach that was used did not enable the identification
of areas of high food insecurity below the level of oblasts, nor for individual cities in the
oblasts.

Date: September 2012

Government Statistical Data

Socio-Economic Mapping

Theme: The government statistical economic data at Ayil Okmutu (sub-district) community
level.

Source of data: Data collected from Ayil Okmutu and District level community passports.
Each passport is maintained by the community to prepare for the National Statistical
committee. In 2011 (south) and 2012 (north), ACTED visited each individual Ayil Okmutu to
collect this socio-economic information from community passports and general AO office
sources.

Description: General statistics on the level of Ayil Okmutu (sub-district). The macro-level
data was collected using trained reporters and data collection sheets distributed to every
AO and Rayon administration office within that oblast. These reporters received training on
the type of information to be collected, and how to collect it using the locally produced AO
“passport” documents that are the rough equivalent of government yearly reports. These
reporters would schedule a meeting with AO administration offices, describe the type of
data desired, explain the ACTED produced data collection sheet, and request the
administration to complete the form. The reporter would then give the administration
several days to complete the collection sheet, and retrieve it. Each collection sheet was
then scanned and its contents entered into standardized excel spreadsheets. These
spreadsheets then were compiled to form an access database. Finally, ACTED created map
layers using mapping software and these are to be presented on an interactive internet site.
The survey was done in two stages under two different projects, starting with southern
Kyrgyzstan (IRG-SEM) and then in a later phase northern Kyrgyzstan (COMTACA).
Government data is available at the district and community levels for the following
categories: Bazaars, Culture and Sports, Education, Employment, Factories, Healthcare,
Land use, Livestock, Population, Production, Territory, Vulnerability Occupancy.

Socio-Economic Mapping

Data source: ACTED field analyses. Perceptions of Peace and Stability in South Kyrgyzstan
- TASK project.

Description: The survey was conducted by ACTED and DCA, building on TASK’s existing
experiences of conflict prevention in the Ferghana Valley, and borrowing practices from the
international literature of monitoring and evaluation in the peacebuilding and conflict
mitigation sectors. The survey tool includes indicators related to:
- The current trend of inter-communal violence and disputes in Kyrgyzstan
- The presence of factors that drive conflict or that promote peace in communities
across South Kyrgyzstan, and their current levels of influence
- The existing ways communities respond to disputes and potential sources of conflicts
and the effectiveness of these approaches and mechanisms
- The nature of inter- and intra-community relations across South Kyrgyzstan

Description: The survey was conducted within the project "Reform of Criminal Law of the
Kyrgyz Republic", financed by Bureau of law enforcement and the fight against
international drug trafficking U.S. State Department. The survey is characterization of the
state legal community of the Kyrgyz Republic on September 2012. For definition the needs
of lawyers and current issues of advocacy and professional training was defined
interviewing among lawyers, the results of which identified the most pressing questions.
Questionnaire was conducted at the regional level, covering Osh and Bishkek cities. The
total number of respondents is 200 lawyers.

Date: September 2012

M-Vector Media Analysis

Socio-Economic Mapping

Theme: Primary information source (Internet, Radio, Newspapers and Magazines, TV,
Family and Friends) of people in different provinces of Kyrgyz Republic in their general life.

Description: The mass media (media) are one of the most important institutions of
modern society. They perform multiple functions: inform, educate, promote, entertain.
Obviously, they play an important role in the formation, functioning and evolution of social
consciousness as a whole. Moreover, the perception and interpretation of key events and
developments in the country and the world at large, carried out through and with help of
media. These circumstances are of particular relevance and importance of the growing
penetration of media in political and public sphere, their transformation into one of the most
important tools for the implementation of social processes. And at the moment issues of
accessibility and the level of penetration of the mass media are becoming increasingly
political and economic importances, especially given the recent events in the republic.
This survey discusses the following questions: What sources of information are used by the
people of Kyrgyzstan, how they assess the importance and reliability of these sources, what
is the frequency of listening to the most popular media. «M-Vector» company team
surveyed more than 2,000 respondents from seven regions of the Kyrgyz Republic. A study
conducted by personal interview to determine: the ratings of TV channels, radio stations
and print media, the most popular programs and columns, the average daily audience of TV
and radio, view duration and scope, market share and popularity of the media, as well as
the perception of social, economic and political situation in Kyrgyzstan.

Description: Access to markets is argued to have a significant role in development. In
order to quantify the access of places to markets, policy makers are showing increasing
interest in accessibility indicators (Yoshida and Deichmann 2009). This report seeks to
examine the spatial relationship of access to market in the Kyrgyz Republic using a recent
census and household survey in order to identify possible linkages with rates of poverty and
other micro (spatial) information. This analysis uses the Market Accessibility Index that
measures the potential connectivity between village/towns and big cities via the transport
network. Results show that high Market Accessibility is located near the large cities with a
concentration of infrastructure, while low access is more in the rural areas. Future work will
use this indicator in economic models to statistical identify its significance with regards to
per capita expenditure and poverty.

Date: 2013

Community Dispute Analyses

Integrated Environmental Planning

Theme: Results from NGO assessments of the potential of conflict in a wide variety of
Kyrgyz communities related to crucial resources.

Source of data: ACTED field staff analyses

Description: The community-level conflict analysis research, or micro-level survey, was
conducted in 65 communities by project IRG-SEM, 30 communities by project COMTACA
and 63 by TASK in Southern Kyrgyzstan known for their history of significant
intercommunal conflict or tension. The micro approach relied on community-level focus
groups to allow conflict prone populations to discuss the major socio-economic changes in
their communities over the past ten years. These changes were then analyzed to determine
how the community’s relationship to neighbouring communities, authorities and other key
stakeholders by these changes. The list of communities to be targeted by the project team
was compiled based on scholarly research conducted on conflict in the region. Additionally,
the subsequent stakeholder analysis involving interviews off-key agencies working in the
peace building sector was undertaken to identify communities with histories of conflict and
tension in the region. A minimum of three focus groups were conducted in each community:
one for community leaders, one for women and one focused on the perspective of youths in
the community. Where there were important ethnic or economic divides within the
community, additional focus groups were organized to ensure that all of the stakeholders in
that community were able to contribute to the conflict analysis. In assessing changes in
communities, the research divided the history of each community into one section on
demographic change and six chapters on its socio-economic landscape: drinking water,
education, health care, crop agriculture, animal husbandry and tertiary economic activities.

Date: 2011 - 2012

Landuse - Forestry

Integrated Environmental Planning

Description: Written by DEM and terrain of the state forest fund (SFF) and protected areas
(PAs), the outer limits of digitized horizontally based on the topographic map of 1:25000
scale Forestry Department of the State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry
under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. Forestry Department follows the regulations
approved by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on June 29, 2012 № 463.

Integrated Environmental Planning

Description: Natural Disasters data includes statistics on the number of registered natural
disaster occurred in the Kyrgyz Republic for the period 2000 to 2009.

Date: 2000 - 2009

Community Hazard Vulnerability Assessments

Integrated Environmental Planning

Theme: Hazard Vulnerability Assessments done at the community (mahalla) level, with
analysis of hazard vulnerability risk according to different risk factors.

Source of data: Hazard Vulnerability Assessments were conducted by ACTED, under the
framework of the DIPECHO VII project, in selected communities in Tajikistan (26) and
Kyrgyzstan.

Description: Information was collected through a Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment
(HVA) process at community level in association with key members of the community. Data
was reviewed in the field by CoES representatives in Tajikistan and by the former Deputy
Head of MoES Batken Oblast, now an independent consultant, in Kyrgyzstan. A DRR expert
was also consulted to ensure that the data matched disaster conditions on the ground and
accurately reflected the level of risk faced by target communities.

Village level data was collected based as a participatory community data collection process.
Communities identified, including through a participatory mapping exercise, risk zones and
hazard points in consultation with community mobilization staff and international DRR
experts. Community mobilizers recorded this data in a standardized HVA format, and by
recording spatial data using a handheld GPS device. Spatial information was then translated
by data collectors into KMZ files. Community hazard and vulnerability information, in the
form of HVAs and KMZs, were then given to the GIS team, who then produced static Hazard
Vulnerability maps and Passports based on the information gathered in the field.

Note: Each assessment is dated to indicate that the assessment provides information about
the situation at that time, with the acknowledgement that mitigation works, construction,
additional training, changing weather, or other factors may alter the hazard vulnerability
situation in any given village at any time.

Date: July 2013

Shelter Damage Assessment 2010

Following the violent clashes that broke out in Southern Kyrgyzstan on 10th June 2010, significant damage was inflicted on properties in the affected Oblasts of Osh and Jalalabad. To facilitate the humanitarian response for transitional shelter construction members of the Shelter Cluster, established by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Osh, launched a joint survey to assess the extent of the damage to housing. This joint shelter assessment was conducted between the 3rd and 23rd July 2010. The assessment was led and supervised by UNHCR with teams seconded from ACTED, STC, CRS, STLI and the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan
The aim of this assessment was to:

- Provide an exhaustive census of all houses damaged or destroyed during the June events, and present evidence of damage to avoid misunderstandings over numbers;

- Provide a basic picture of the extent and type of damage per house and map locations to facilitate programme implementation;